Slaughter Pen

The Slaughter Pen is a rocky gorge located near the Devil's Den portion of the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania. During the Battle of Gettysburg on 2 July 1863, the Slaughter Pen was covered with Confederate dead from when the Alabama infantry of the Confederate States Army attempted to assault Little Round Top from Devil's Den and the field. The gorge was nicknamed the "Slaughter Pen" for the amount of dead bodies seen there after the battle's end.